Apple Logo and Spinning Wheel

smov111 · #1 October 8th, 2009, 01:06 AM

I recently installed a new hard drive into my Power Mac and I installed the Mac OS X 10.4 software. After the download, the computer restarted and after it restarted, the Apple Logo appeared and some type of spinning circle (Circle made up of lines) stared to spin. I also replaced the battery inside and hit the reset button. The funny thing is, the computer was working fine yesterday. The circle has been spinning for a couple of hours now. What can I do? I am open to any sugestions.

#1 Rhapsody · #2 October 12th, 2009, 09:02 AM

If you have let it sit for at least an hour you should try installing Mac OS X again. Do you have the retail install disks? Are they downloaded disks, gray disks, or the retail disks?

MacNtrouble22 · #3 October 28th, 2009, 01:05 PM

Hi,

I am sorry if this is in the wrong place. Please help if you can.

I have a 2 year old macbook. I have never had problems with it until a few nights ago. I was watching some videos and it started to freeze up on me. I turned off my macbook by holding down the power button. I left it alone until monring. When I tried to turn it on again I found myself at the gray screen with the apple and spinning wheel. First it would just stay here for 30+ minutes and it does not do anything.

I have tried to reset the Pram and start in Safe mode by selecting down shift after the inital chime. Nothing happens.

Now I try to power on, goes to same gray screen with spinning wheel and quickly turns off.

I am currently away from home and my install discs.

I need to use my macbook now and I also want to make sure I do not lose the information I do not have backed up.

Do I need my original discs? Can I have someone burn me a copy and mail them to me? This way I do not risk losing the originals in the mail.

Or can I try something different without having my install discs.
(DiskWarrior)

Please help in any way you can. It will be greatly appreciated.

djackmac · #4 October 28th, 2009, 01:12 PM

If you don't have your disks you will need another Mac to connect to (something running an OS more current than 10.3.9)through firewire. Then you can boot your macbook into target disk mode (boot holding T key) and run disk utility through the other Mac to at least see if your HD is detected. This way if the drive is not bad you may be able to try to get your data.